GIRLS LEFT ORPHANS
COMING TO NEW ZEALAND TO RELATIVES ARRIVAL AT SYDNEY SYDNEY, Monday. Diana and Rosemary Fetch, aged nine and seven respectively, arrived at Sydney today by the liner Hestor. They are going to New~Zealand. The father of the children formerly was manager of a large tobacco plantation in Nyassaland. Stricken by malaria, he was dying when his wife was killed by lightning. The father died as a result of shock. Friends located relatives of the two orphans at Te Kuiti, and it was arranged to send the little girls out to them. They were looked after by passengers on board the Hestor. Their grandfather, Mr. W. L. Fetch, met them here and will see to their welfare on the" voyage to New Zealand.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1060, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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125GIRLS LEFT ORPHANS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1060, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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